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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."
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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
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"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."
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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
Art
"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
Society
"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."
Emotion
"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."
Art
"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
Art
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
God
"The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir."
Life
"A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane."
Writing
"The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits."
Identity
"I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things."
Humor
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